Editing Unit Sounds

**Amaranth** · October 13, 2011, 01:25 PM

Hello,

I wish to change the sound sets of a faction, especially the sounds of some units in battle, like speeches when a unit is selected, firing arrows etc. I have the new sound files for each of these actions, but I need some detailed instructions on where to place them, how to path them to the specific units etc.

Secondly, is it also possible change command sounds of a faction ? Like when an army/general selected or moved on campaign map, army ambushed, settlement sieged etc. If there's a tutorial specificly showing how to edit these I'd be glad to take a look. My searches only showed me posts about how to change the music and extract sounds.

Edit: Ok so I found lots of text files that hints these changes should be made in them files like descr_sounds_units_fire, export_descr_sounds_units_voice, descr_sounds_units_confirm, export_descr_sounds_soldier_voice and so on. But I'm afraid I'm going to need much more than these. I just hope I'm on the right path ?

**Ngugi** · October 17, 2011, 06:34 AM

Here is a good tutorial on how to add new sounds both for battlemap and campaignmap, used it to learn the craft myself

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=352289

It will point out what files you need to look into as well [god tip from my side is to print the tutorial as its much easier to read from paper than the screen while learning], such as this;

export_descr_sounds_units_voice.txt - in this file all the battle map voices of the units are assigned
export_descr_sounds_stratmap_voice.txt - in this file all strat map voices, such as selection, movement, diplomacy &c., are assigned

Its examples are based on the mod TATW but the princips are the same for all M2 AFAIK.

Good luck and dont mind ask again once you gone through the tutorial and began testing stuff out

**Amaranth** · October 23, 2011, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Ngugi

Here is a good tutorial on how to add new sounds both for battlemap and campaignmap, used it to learn the craft myself

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=352289

It will point out what files you need to look into as well [god tip from my side is to print the tutorial as its much easier to read from paper than the screen while learning], such as this;Its examples are based on the mod TATW but the princips are the same for all M2 AFAIK.

Good luck and dont mind ask again once you gone through the tutorial and began testing stuff out

This is excellent, thank you very much !

I wanted to edit sounds for TATW anyway so it's even better. I'll post if I need further assistance.

**Emperor of Hell** · October 25, 2011, 09:45 AM

I have a problem with adding sounds for new units
I added new units in my game and just copied some sound entries from other units but it doesn't work, does anyone know why?
This are my sound entries in export_descr_sounds_units_voice:

Code:

                          unit Axemen of Lossarnach2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_Lossarnach_1.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_Lossarnach_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Marines2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_RK_Mariner_1.wav
                                                  4a_RK_Mariner_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Dismounted Kofm2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_Militia_1.wav
                                                  4a_RK_Militia_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Gondor Infantry2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Heavy_Infantry_1.wav
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Heavy_Infantry_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Dismounted Swan Knights2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_koda_1.wav
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Knights_1.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Gondor Spearmen2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Spearmen_1.wav
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Spearmen_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Kingsguard2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_KG_1.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_KG_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Kingsguard_BG2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_KG_1.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_KG_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Fountain Guard2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_Citadelguard_1.wav
                                                  4a_RK_GotC_3.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Militia Archers2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_Bowmen_1.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_Bowmen_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Gondor Archers2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  English_Light_Generic_Archers_1.wav
                                                  English_Light_Generic_Archers_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Blackroot Archers2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  English_Light_Generic_Archers_1.wav
                                                  English_Light_Generic_Archers_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Ithilien Rangers2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_RK_RoI_4.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_roi_3.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Ithilien Rangers_BG2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_RK_RoI_4.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_roi_3.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Dol Amroth Knights2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_Militia_1.wav
                                                  4a_RK_Militia_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Gondor Cavalry2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Heavy_Cavalry_1.wav
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Heavy_Cavalry_2.wav
                                    end
                                    unit Swan Knights2
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_koda_1.wav
                                                  English_Heavy_Generic_Knights_2.wav
                                    end

**danny X** · October 25, 2011, 09:53 AM

this thread might help you, Ishan is talking about deleting some files that then get rebuilt

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...78#post8387378

**Emperor of Hell** · October 25, 2011, 10:27 AM

After I deleted all those files there were hardly sounds left

**danny X** · October 25, 2011, 10:37 AM

Oh-dear, sorry, here is the sound files for m2tw and kingdoms:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74106

**Emperor of Hell** · October 25, 2011, 11:04 AM

No problem, I made backups

**danny X** · October 25, 2011, 05:50 PM

did you delete the map.rvm aswell?

i think this needs to be deleted too, i assume it helps in the re-building process, worth a try!

**wolfslayer** · October 26, 2011, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by dannyxx30

did you delete the map.rvm aswell?

i think this needs to be deleted too, i assume it helps in the re-building process, worth a try!

map.rwm doesn't have to be deleted and rebuilt for unit voices in export_descr_sounds_units_voice.txt.

Voice.idx, Voice.dat, events.idx, events.dat do.

After rebuilding check your mod/data/sound folder make sure the time stamps on these files are new.
You can also check your system log to make sure the wavs were found and added to the .dat file properly. Missings sounds won't make game CTD, it will just skip them when rebuilding the files.

And of course all wavs for unit voices need to be 22050 hz mono 16bit or they won't play.

**Emperor of Hell** · October 26, 2011, 02:27 AM

Not working either, again no sounds left. I hate sound files

**Emperor of Hell** · October 26, 2011, 03:01 AM

The voices aren't working and my log is pretty much empty, but my sound files are new, looking at the date.

**wolfslayer** · October 26, 2011, 06:53 AM

One thing you can do is open the.idx files with a hex editor or notepad and search for the names of your new sounds. If they are there then you need to check the sample rate of your wavs.

If they aren't there then you need to check and make sure the wavs are in the right folders referred to in the sound txt files.

Adding new sounds isn't too hard. The main thing is get used to deleting and rebuilding the sound idx/dat files, and making sure the paths for wavs and sound txt match.

If you add trace to your mod cfg file you should get a list of all the wavs packed when you delete and rebuild the dat files. Check that part of the log for your wavs, it will tell you if it is found, or missing, or any errors..

[log]
to=logs/log.txt
level = * trace

**Emperor of Hell** · October 26, 2011, 07:26 AM

I haven't added any new sounds, I just copied other units sound entries

**Ishan** · October 26, 2011, 09:27 AM

Make sure to put all 39 sound text files in the data folder then do changes in the text files if necessary.
Add new sounds if those text files include them in the proper directory.
Delete every .idx and .dat file and relaunch the game to re-generate them from text info.

If using vista or win 7 then make sure you disable UAC before re-launching the game otherwise the files will go in the virtual store folder instead.

**Ishan** · October 29, 2011, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by killersmurf

I looked through some threads here and Ishan posted it there should be 39, I now have 18 so that's 21 to go

I reminded you this in this very thread, lazy boy.

Originally Posted by Ishan

Make sure to put all 39 sound text files in the data folder then do changes in the text files if necessary.

Anyways glad you got it fixed.

**Emperor of Hell** · October 26, 2011, 12:37 PM

I extracted the sounds and when I now delete the .idx and .dat files, I don't loose any sounds but there are still no sounds for my new units.

**Ishan** · October 26, 2011, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by killersmurf

I extracted the sounds and when I now delete the .idx and .dat files, I don't loose any sounds but there are still no sounds for my new units.

Then it simply means you are not modifying your sound files for those units properly, do what Ngugi suggests you.

**Ngugi** · October 26, 2011, 04:53 PM

Speculating and my suggestion is that we might have a problem with the accent class - and if not then least we eliminated a possibility

In the EDU there is noted what accent and what accent class the unit has (here called voice_type).
I use the EDU from the TATW-submod MOS here as example;

Code:

type             Axemen of Lossarnach
dictionary       Axemen_of_Lossarnach      ; Axemen of Lossarnach, Superior
category         infantry
class            heavy
voice_type       Heavy
accent   GondorInfantry

If your units has not voice_type or accent noted in the EDU you should give them such.
Or if incorrect, say voice_typ General instead of Heavy or other flaw as wrong accent, change it.

Accents in the textfile EDSUV is split into class General, class Heavy and class Light.

How it looks in EDUSV

In this example it means that Axemen of Lossarnach needs to be put into the EDSUV 1) under accent GondorInfantry 2) under class Heavy 3) under vocal Unit_Select

But if I, say, edit like this

Code:

         accent GondorInfantry
                  class General
                           vocal Group_Created
(...)
                           vocal Unit_Select
                                    unit Axemen of Lossarnach
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Battle_Map
                                                  4a_Gondor_Lossarnach_1.wav
                                                  4a_Gondor_Lossarnach_2.wav
                                    end
(...)

= voices given under 1) accent GondorInfantry 2) under class General instead of class Heavy. Then my axemen will not speak, because in the EDU they are voice_type Heavy, not General.
Hope this might be the case

**Emperor of Hell** · October 27, 2011, 02:01 AM

I've checked the entries, they all have voice_type heavy and there I placed them in EDUSV

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